Victimless Crime: A Selected Bibliography

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National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice, Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, U.S. Department of Justice, 1977 - 87 Seiten

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Seite 32 - The basic guidelines for the trier of fact must be: (a) whether "the average person, applying contemporary community standards" would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest; (b) whether the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by the applicable state law; and (c) whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.
Seite 49 - It is the policy of this state that alcoholics and intoxicated persons may not be subjected to criminal prosecution because of their consumption of alcoholic beverages but rather should be afforded a continuum of treatment in order that they may lead normal lives as productive members of society.
Seite 77 - Not all the ills or aberrancies of society are the concern of the government. Government is not the only human institution to handle the problems, hopes, fears or ambitions of people.
Seite 77 - Even when conduct may properly be condemned as criminal under the first six principles, it may be that the energies and resources of criminal law enforcement are better spent by concentrating on more serious things. This is a matter of priorities.
Seite 81 - ... the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, Supreme Court Building, Washington, DC, 20544.
Seite 26 - The study has three main objectives: (1) To determine the extent of public exposure to and experience with erotic materials, including the media in which erotica are experienced, circumstances of experience, and experience with particular types of erotic content. (2) To assess attitudes towards the desirability of controlling availability of erotic materials, the means for effecting such control, and the gradations of control for erotic materials in general, and for particular kinds of such material.
Seite 49 - The criminal justice system appears ineffective to deter drunkenness or to meet the problems of the chronic alcoholic offender. What the system usually does accomplish is to remove the drunk from public view, detoxify him and provide him with food, shelter, emergency medical service, and a brief period of forced sobriety. As presently constituted, the system is not in a position to meet his underlying medical and social problems.
Seite 24 - On the other hand, we recommend legislative regulations upon the sale of sexual materials to young persons who do not have the consent of their parents, and we also recommend legislation to protect persons from having sexual materials thrust upon them without their consent through the mails or through open public display.

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